Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.

A well begun is half ended.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.